skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. I implemented something like this for Blogabond back in the day. At the time there were hundreds of people using it to document their round the world trips at any given time, but there's just way too much world to expect any two of them to cross paths. Yes, you're probably both going to pass through Chiang Mai at some point, but not before the 16th when one of you is planning to move on to Laos.

The feature was live for a year or so, but I don't think anybdy ever successfully met up through it.

Realistically, the way you meet people to travel with is to travel. There are lots of people out there doing it, though the trick today is trying to pry them off their phones for long enough to talk to a stranger.
Yeah, but we have like a billion years or so until that happens (e.g. the sun turns red giant and boils the atmosphere away).

Life did pretty well even in the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum.
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> * Original ballot gets lost (destroyed?)

Do you have a source for that? Michigan's response in the Antrim County dispute (which I think you're referring to by "60% adjudication rate") seems to say the original hand marked ballots are retained:

>Because voting tabulators in Michigan use hand marked, paper ballots, any alleged errors in tabulators can be caught during a hand recount, which any candidate could have requested in Antrim County.

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/ag/SOS_Benson_Response_An...
I was amazed that aeronabs inhalers didn't seem to go anywhere last year. My concern is the bigPharma vaccines being mass produced won't prove to be effective and we will find Aplidin, aeronabs and others should have been taken far more seriously
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/08/418241/aeronabs-promise-po...
Had to click through a few links to get real info. From https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/updates/introducing...

> Questions and answers

> Q: Is this a new docs platform?

> A: No, we are working closely together with existing platforms, and our current priority is contributions to MDN Web Docs.

> Q: Is this a competitor/replacement for MDN Web Docs?

> A: No. Open Web Docs writers contribute to important developer documentation resources, including MDN. Mozilla is a part of Open Web Docs and a member of its Steering Committee.

> Q: How is Open Web Docs funded?

> A: Open Web Docs is funded by contributions from our founding sponsors Coil, Google and Microsoft, and contributors from the wider developer community such as Igalia. We welcome more backers who want to ensure support for long-term maintenance of web platform technology documentation.
Yes, you can reboot, but you have to update in-place, instead of rolling out a new OS image. Or you adopt the Netflix approach. There are also some additional restrictions, e.g. you can't change the machine type.

Anyway, from the other comment here, I think tommyzli might not have realized that a reboot is still possible, which would partially explain the 3 years uptime.
Solution: 15 more nukes!
Ergs don’t float :-) The most important factor before converting raw erg performance (i.e average watts over a 2000m race) to water performance is to consider it in relation athlete mass. This is intuitive because more mass means more displacement creating more drag. The erg doesn’t consider any of that.

In our testing protocols we had a metric from watt vs mass called p-index. I’m not sure exactly how it’s calculated anymore but there should be a published paper about this somewhere [0].

The lightweights usually had higher p-index values than the heavyweights, though values from the top heavyweights that also did well where usually close to the lightweights. That’s just anecdotal though.

There are tons more differences. The next important factor that comes to mind is technique, obviously. My guess is the next biggest contribution to performance difference is the catch, how quickly an athlete is able to burry the blade in the water and apply force without losing precious stroke length. This requires precise timing of vertical and horizontal movement. You do it right when you see a small v shaped splash as the blade enters the water. The measurement for that is called slip angle. The erg is much less picky about that.

I already mentioned some other points in my previous post, I bet there is tons more.

[0] Volker Nolte, Dieter Altenburg and Valery Kleshnev are great starting points when it comes to rowing research. Theres plenty more if you dig in.
I have not seen any quantitative data on this, so just going of my own anecdotal evidence. I think there is a couple of aspects to this. One, beginners tend pull way too much with their arms and that tends to tire you out very quickly (your arms are pretty small muscles compared to your legs). It also requires some experience on the ergo to learn that you can make hard or soft pulls at the same stroke rate (again this is difficult if you pull mainly with the arms), so beginners tend to just adjust stroke rate.
The other aspect is that rowing produces lactate in pretty high rates because of so many muscles being involved. That takes a bit of getting used to.
Wow, was checking out the transactions at https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/transactions?offset... and I see that Google and Microsoft have collectively contributed $500k.

Happy to see that there is corporate sponsorship for this. Gives me some hope that this will allow MDN to outlast any eventuality that might befall Mozilla.
And here I thought they were referring to MirageOS on the TI-83

https://www.calculatorti.com/os/mirageos/
Apple once had a requirement that all software must survive 24 hours on "The Monkey", a test setup which generated random keystrokes and mouse clicks. Fuzz testing, the early years.

Bring that back for web sites, somebody.
> John Galt Blvd

Someone has a sense of humor, at least.
It's also highly debatable whether you need chips made with the latest process nodes for these purposes. Few cars or trains have to be machine-learning monsters. Also, power electronics, used by all kinds of vehicles, is perfectly fine using larger, cheaper and more rugged nodes.
RDS can be.. expensive? Like by a lot?
Doing things that don't scale is the best way to obtain loyal users.
Do not be so sure. The spike protein has two states, pre fusion and post fusion. It makes a difference what exactly the vaccine is targeting. My understanding of this is very limited though.
I replied to this on multiple other comments in this thread. (they may be flagged or dead so may not be visible unless you have your settings set to show dead)

"Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't apply here since it's not a specific individual being accused of a crime. This is a PUBLIC process within a constitutional republic (which means we use a public process known as an election to decide who makes decisions), and I believe the results of aforementioned PUBLIC process should be PUBLICLY verifiable. That isn't an unfair statement.

Think about it, how do you know that Biden won? Considering you cannot prove that Biden won, and I cannot prove he didn't win, I'd say we have a pretty broken process.
I don't really find that a very compelling criticism, to be honest. When I think about what kind of features I'd want in my messaging app, there are really only two things I can think of that iMessage doesn't have: encryption, and the ability to easily leave a group text. Add those two things in, and I'm there for life.

On the other hand, both of these things are essentially limitations imposed by SMS, at least when one end of the conversation is not an iPhone. Both can be fixed, at a small cost in complexity, and if they did that, I think it would hit a good balance between features, usability, and architectural complexity.
Galaxy store is alive and well on Samsung phones.
> It would be nice if people could trust the outcome of the election.

Well I don’t know, in 2017 a professor asked us if democracy was in crisis and I thought “its never been healthier”. For the first time I can remember, people were actually trying to hold the President accountable for something. Now it is true that most of that was driven by the fact that they didn’t like who the President happened to be at the time, so maybe we can get that to work in our favor again.

> More specifically, it would be nice if establishment media and political figures didn't respond to this distrust with castigation.

Well on the one hand I agree with that, but on the other hand this is the result of some complicated interactions (no matter how you view the facts on the ground). If their distrust is actually motivated and harmful then I’m sure its not an act for those establishment types to castigate it. On the other hand such activity is sure to increase distrust. So we’re stuck again.

> Distrusting government would still make sense for me personally. It would be idyllic if people looked towards decentralization, localism and private solutions. Trust in their local institutions or community, while drastically reducing the purview of the federal government. That's just my personal preference. I'm not sure it is applicable in the widespread, pragmatic sense.

I agree generally

> Some kind of political figure reaching across the aisle, recognizing the concerns of those who feel disenfranchised looks like the pragmatic solution that isn't happening. Instead I see actions and accusations that are predictably creating more division.

I agree
Keep blogging how it goes! Maybe spend 6 months in tallin on the Estonian deal?
Hmm, can someone TLDR what this is supposed to be? I did read the article but I didn't understand what this is trying to do. It just mentions something about the "collective health of something".
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You might want to add „Ask HN:“ to the title to make clear that this is not a link to a submission but an actual question to us users.
He already hedges his bets and makes pretty much the exact excuses you predicted.

I find this whole exercise to be utterly pointless, but hey, its his time, his money, and his effort, so more power to him.
US government supports one of the biggest open-tech funds which unfortunately has been on pause since last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23636498

These are not US-only but worth a look nevertheless:

https://github.com/nayafia/microgrants

https://nlnet.nl/propose/
Anecdotal, but that's not how any of the half a dozen waterloo grads I know describe it.
Right, I realized I put in the Oracle comparison which was beside the point but decided not to edit it out.
that article is why 4chan continues to mock 'normies', they see two memes and begin to judge (falsely)
Could you find out which node size? I could find a reference to 1 micrometer. It's a good start, and probably more than enough for many purposes, but way to go...
Roughly 0.18 to 3 mSv per annum [0]. (EU regulations limit it to 3 mSv/a maximum [0]).

One banana is 0.1 µSv [1].

The granite is therefore 0.18 mSv / 0.1 µSv = 1800 bananas.

This is compared to 4 mSv normal yearly background dose [1]. The granite increases background radiation by 0.18 / 4 * 100 = 4.5%. The yearly dose from natural potassium in the body is 0.39 mSv, so I wouldn't worry about the extra 0.18 mSv if I were you.

You're at much greater risk if you live in a house which used reinforced concrete with steel from the Ciudad Juárez accident - after that accident, 109 houses were demolished. [2] [3]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/jes200944

[1] https://xkcd.com/radiation/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_acc...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24891947
If anyone would prefer to write LISP rather than FORTH, I wrote a similar project that would let you dust the ashes off any post-apocalyptic x86 machine and run John McCarthy's metacircular evaluator in nearly 512 bytes. https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp
I found exactly the same under Programming. This is a nicely structured bookmarks.html file.
Can you share how you did this? I’ve had this idea for awhile but never figured out how to pull it off.
The favorite part of this story for me was this:

> ... [various debunked predictions] led to the general impression that the entire episode was an elaborate hoax.

Whereas this

> by a poster claiming to be an American military time traveler from 2036.

Wasn’t the thing. Could be everyone was trolling but some of the commenters really seemed like true believers egged on by the trolls (kind of like flat earthers).

I just fundamentally don’t understand the level of gullibility involved that’s needed to buy into a story like that (like I get it exists but I just can’t understand the mentality that leads there). It’s also likely why astrology, religion, and wild unbelievable conspiracy theories take hold in our society (I like my conspiracy theories to have what I consider a more plausible down-to-earth premise).

I wonder what the evolutionary advantage there is for the duality in society. Is it really just as simple that the primitive “what if it could be true” is good for helping you avoid danger and the “that’s not a plausible line of thinking” helping better locate real world opportunities are the two engines for our success as a species? And that the misapplication is just a trait that’s not useful in a comparatively peaceful time (and the tension ironically brings about the reduction of peace time?).
Space-X had to start over from the beginning. They built a small booster, and then a bigger booster, and then a better version of the bigger booster, then an even bigger booster and a spacecraft. Took 18 years. That's longer than it took NASA in the 1950s and 1960s.

NASA is trying to do a giant booster without anybody who built a booster recently.
I am going back to Todoist from todo.txt (2017)
Looking forward to coming back here in 10 years...
Things like string measurement is indeed tricky. Audio generation or reading back raster data simply shouldn’t be possible by default. I’d be happy to enable that on a per site basis like pop ups.
I’m doing my best not to be insulted by your description of my conjecture as “cartoonish.” Maybe one of us has misunderstood the other, but it seems to me that I’ve also proposed a mechanism that involves the attacker having limited understanding.

From the blog post, it sounds like the bit where they were working in the dark was getting things to run on a production database, but the SQL command to give them moderator privileges was prepared ahead of time (which makes sense, they had a local site set up and could prepare and test that part at their leisure). It seems very unlikely to me that they would have spent so much effort on getting that particular SQL to run for no reason, so the moderator privilege in particular probably had some appeal to them from a technical perspective. The main permission I can think of that you get as a mod is the ability to edit posts. It seems unlikely that an attack this sophisticated would be just for vandalism, so I consider the profit motive instead. “For sale: Access to Stack Exchange internal infrastructure. As proof, ask me to edit any post on Stack Overflow.”

What tripped them up was not a technical tripwire, but rather how intimate the SE community is with their moderators. This wouldn’t be obvious from the codebase; only if you’d spent some time on the meta sites would you be aware of the culture surrounding SE mods. On, say, Facebook, getting a global moderator bit isn’t something that a big chunk of the user base would have name recognition for. My stereotype is that someone who’s trying to break in to infrastructure (and not doing responsible disclosure) probably isn’t also volunteering in the review queues, and so wouldn’t realize what a risk this would be.

Of course this is all conjecture and we’ll never know for certain without tracking down the attacker and asking them, but I’d like to think I’ve constructed a reasonable scenario that takes all of the known facts and a probable motive and comes up with a plausible explanation for what was (in hindsight, at least) a fairly significant blunder.
Heh... my myopia is so severe that I get the effect just by taking off my glasses and looking at a point light source.

Christmas trees look like psychedelic, technicolor schools of puffer fish, and I can clearly watch the intra-ocular "weather" as I move my head/eyes around.
I'm not sure about the predictions, but I believe that devices have the right to exist, and that saying "your browser is not good enough" is akin to saying "your car is too old for this road" or "your wheelchair is incompatible with these stairs".

I test my website with every browser I can get my hands on. Yes, hundreds of them. Yes, even Netscape 2 and IE 3. I think Web has taken a bloaty turn, but we still have a chance to retain and preserve the knowledge.

The nice part about it is that for every browser I tweak for, the site gets more and more compatible and accessible. As someone with experience, I've been able to access it under the strangest circumstances and methods.
>no one should be able to think or speak free

Who says that? People, myself included, don't want specific harmful for society groups to be allowed to speak free, not that nobody's allowed to say anything.

Yes, nazis should not be allowed to speak free. And no ramblings about privacy here on HN will ever change my mind.

In fact, I'd be happy to sacrifice my own privacy if we can root out the evil of racism, nazism, terrorism, and other things that absolutely everybody agrees are bad.

That being said, I think the frameworks used to prevent that at the moment have a lot of potential for abuse, especially from private companies. And it's something that should be improved upon, and normal people should have privacy as much as possible.
I suspect you could scrounge materials for a nickel iron battery without too much trouble.
Yes really, if everyone does it wrong, it means something is lacking to put those peoples in the right track from the start.
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“Just Wikipedia” exceeds the 16-bit address capacity of a z80 by a factor of 288,391 [0] even when compressed. Heck, you couldn’t even list all the article titles even if they were all an average of one character long.

Plenty of useful things you can still do with a z80, but at that tech level paper and ink is a better storage system than silicon and magnets.

[0] As per Wikipedia’s stats page, the size of current versions of all articles is 18.9 GB compressed
That's an impressive amount of IOPS. I have always been a EBS / pd-ssd guy, and mostly rely on memory to reduce the IOPS requirement. But as cloud providers typically charge a ridiculous amount of money for memory, a setup like yours with instance storage / local-ssd is an intriguing option.
Amazon bans Oath Keepers and Three Percenters groups from charitable shopping
Or as The Reg called it: “Google, Microsoft pitch in some spare change to keep Mozilla's Web Docs online bible alive.
Turns out having coherent API documentation is useful for, well, everyone”

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/mozilla_web_docs/
It would have been good if that had then continued with something like@:

“what we do need is good tools for users to be able to control who gets to communicate with them on Signal”.

Which it quite likely did, but the author chose to take only the first bit out of context to fit their chosen narrative...

I don’t want Signal to moderate my chats in any way at all. I do want my friends/family to easily be able to only choose to receive messages sent by people they wish to hear from. Which is, at least so far, exactly how things are. I guess these new “group chat links” make a difference, but it’s not like you are ever forced to click and join such a group. I don’t want the internet to be censored or shut down just because some people choose to participate in 4chan/8kun...
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Headline is correct: https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/mozilla_web_docs/
In case you're actually curious (even though this is like two weeks later): Despite never leaving the house I woke up with little to no smell/taste the other day and while it was likely some random sinus infection or something, given the vulnerable people I live with I isolated and immediately got tested.

Went online and scheduled an appointment for an hour later. (They had sooner, but I took that one.) Drive through test. Just had to provide my usual identification for healthcare (provincial health card), but there was no screening as far as whether I really needed it since the labs aren't really backed up right now.

About 20 hours later got a text with the result in the middle of the night.

From "Maybe I have covid?" to getting a PCR test result was 21 hours and $0. A antigen test would only take an hour or two, but be much less accurate. As far as PCR testing, no complaints here. Only had to spend one night sleeping on the couch in the basement before knowing I wasn't going to infect and kill my family.
I don't use my Home device ever, but its been plugged in for so long. The other day while walking by it, I decided to just unplug it.

Why not? I put a cover over my laptop cam.
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Plenty of projects require a CLA, which seems pretty similar paperwork-wise?
It's been that way for a long time - years at least. You can reboot but not 'stop' and of course not 'terminate.'
> It's also a backup mechanism in case Signal fails (like it did when the exodus happened)

I view SMS as a fallback solution. It has plenty of benefits, i.e. no app required, works on every mobile phone ever made.
Yes, this is open source, everyone is free to chose how they contribute.
Collecting data might well be acceptable with the GDPR.

However what makes it legal isn't if it is written in the TOS or in a cookie banner.

AFAIK what matters is either:

- if you have a specific, valid (according to the GDPR) reason,

- or if you have the users free and informed consent.

... and yes, I think a number of the things I still see on the web is not OK:

- dark pattern where if you click manage settings everything is opted out, but there's a big green "Accept everything" and a small bland "Confirm my choices"? Doesn't fly because the rule that it should be equally easy to opt out.

- Cookie banners with no real opt out? No way.

- Cookie banners where you have to deselect 927 "partners"? Also no way.

The only ones that seems legal are those who either uses a pure minimum of cookies for preserving state and those allow one to opt out directly but inform you that ads might become less relevant.
We logit to start so we need to go back from logit space -> probability space. Linear transformations in logit space don't preserve the sum = 1 requirement of the corresponding probability so you can't just take the sigmoid of each element individually. This is just a slick way of writing it, you can write it all out without any logits / sigmoids, but it's easier to do the algebra in logit space.
Where does the paint come into it?
All of those spoilt ballot examples are where the proportion of spoiled ballots is high because voters are protesting. They don’t combat the claim that inadvertently spoiled ballots are rare, nor that spoiled ballots open to the possibility of fraud.
This centuries-old question is still not settled, right?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160629-giraffes-did-not-evo...
Facebook users’ phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot
Early Design for an Ergonomic Chair from 1920
I hope you immediately cancelled your contract with BSNL.